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09/17/2006 8:02 AM Alert 
Hi all,

As most of you know, Katharine's fanbase is going to put together the most robust, expansive effort a fan base has ever done for their icon.  It will be called Katpedia.com. 

It's an online encyclopedia documenting everything about Katharine's career. It will have chapters on each week of AI, with text, photos, video. It will have specific chapters on things such as bulimia, the Dr. Keith Show, The Ghost of Mrs. Muir.

The objective is to document history and preserve it forever. The web is a tangled place. Forums are messy. We want to organize everything we've come across about Katharine from the web and on forums in one spot.  We want to make sure nothing slips into oblivion, never to be found again.

Phase I of the process with be just knowing our "personnel." Our human resources as a fan base.  Phase II will be identifying what tasks need to be completed, and then making task requests to people based on their strengths. We want to make sure we use everyone to their strengths. Allow them to contribute in the manner they want to contribute. Moreover, we want to make sure nobody is assigned too much work. It is crucial to us that nobody has to bear to big of a burden, and any efforts you put into this project are manageable.  We are hoping for 100 volunteers, and are already planning an easy web-based/email-based system to allow us to all easily know what tasks have been requested of us, know what tasks other people are working on, know what tasks have been completed, etc etc. 

Our objective is to make this as simple and userfriendly as possible, with no more technical experise required than you need to operate in this forum.

We want to archive every photo we can, every magazine scan, every television and radio interview we can. We want to transcribe televised interview and break down articles based on category. So for instance, if Katharine in an article mentions the yellow dress, we want you to be able to cut and paste that text into a form online and add it to the category "Yellow Dress."  When one of our writers writes about the Yellow Dress (yes it gets its own chapter), they simply can pull up the Yellow Dress and instantly have reseach at their finger tips to integrate.

We are documenting history as it happened, so nothing will be lost. This is a wonderful way to allow people to celebrate Katharine, because to know her is to love her. I am sure we can educate people all over the world what a courageous, sweet, talented girl she is.

What we're looking to do now is to create a list of  skills/areas of expertise/areas one excels at or enjoys  that we can list as "checkable" boxes on the volunteer registration form that will be going up this week.  So we need YOUR feedback as to what these categories should be.


It can be ripping videos, treasure hunting (googling and finding stuff), writing, uploading pictures, resizing pictures, magazine scans, owning DIVX videos, collecting/owning TV interviews. Since this is such a huge project we basically need to identify every possible facet of the operation, so we can then know our personnel, and can divide up work in an efficient and fruitful manner.

If everyone can brainstorm and provide us with a list of skills/areas of expertise/areas one excels at or enjoys, it would be very helpful to the process of creating a volunteer database. I don't just mean what you personally do best, but what all the different types of things people can do. When you think about those things, try to break them down. For instance, photos may be that you want to collect photos or that you are good at croping photos. or that you have a huge online Kat photo album. Try to really get in depth because we want to make sure when people sign up, they can be specific about what they can bring/want to bring to the project. 

Knowing our personnel will be a huge asset once we get the ball rolling.

Thanks so much.


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09/17/2006 11:00 AM Alert 
Kenneth, here is information if you need any help. I have a degree in art, and I am a freelance artist besides being the branch supervisor at our local library. My email address is tejames84@yahoo.com.
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09/17/2006 11:06 AM Alert 
Thanks Trina. We will have a volunteer page for you to sign up. For now I was hoping we could get lists of different skills that we should make available for people to put a check mark next to when they signup.

IE:

Writing
Editing
Graphic Design
HTML
Cropping Photos with Adobe
Ripping Videos
Gathering Videos
Gathering Photos
Human Resources/Coordinating with People
Collecting Magazine Scans
Collecting Fan Photos
etc etc


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09/17/2006 11:14 AM Alert 
Kenneth,
Like I said I would love to at least submit a header for the site. Some other things that I could do is crop photos, resize them, the the background out of them, basically anything with Adobe Photshop would be my favorite things to do, I could also catagorize articles or photos. My email is lauren_arndt17@yahoo.com if you need anything like that. Some things that maybe other people might want to do are:

- Type up TV interviews
- Keep a list of when Kat will be in Magazines or on TV
- A list of Kat's top songs, what place they were on Charts
- A list of any auditions that she might be attending
- Create a Photo gallery of her

Hope that I can help!

Kat Pack #1422

Kat's Comment to me:

"Lauren,
don't worry about your gift and not getting on time. That is sooo sweet but you didn't have to do that. I really appreciate it. I read your comment and it really touched me. I'm happy you enjoyed your first season of Idol. I mostly thank you for all your support. It means more than anything. I just love that people are enjoying the music. Keep in touch and thanks again. Cute page too!
kat"

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09/17/2006 11:44 AM Alert 

Hey! I'd love to help. I can translate things from english to portuguese, since we want the site to be enjoyed by any fan, even the international fans who doesn't speak english. And Bella can help me with that. I can resize pictures too, and if anyone needs help with posting,  i can do that too.

 

Anyway, here's my e-mail   paula_laurentino@hotmail.com  . I'll do my best.

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09/17/2006 12:03 PM Alert 
Ken, I'd love to help!
I can resize picture, googling and finding stuff, and I can translate things from English to Indonesian..
This is my email, evelyn_ppp@yahoo.com
I'll do my best!
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09/17/2006 12:34 PM Alert 

Hey Kenneth,

I think you already know what I love to do. But anyways, I can help with:

Video Editing (If needed), Ripping Videos, Gathering Videos.. Anything to do with videos really :p


"Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising everytime we fall"
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09/17/2006 12:51 PM Alert 

The following is what I have extracted from the above so far. Please copy it into your post and add your item to the appropriate category or create a new category. At the end of the day we want the last post to contain all the skills mentioned in this thread so we do not need to go back through it! We sill be creating a signup form where you will check the skills you possess. At that time we will be asking for your contact information. All we require now is a list of necessary skills to put into the sign up form.

Basic Photo Manipulation - captures from websites
Basic Photo Manipulation - resizing
Basic Photo Manipulation - cropping
Basic Photo Manipulation - scanning

Advanced Photo Manipulation - blends
Advanced Photo Manipulation - Animated Gifs
Advanced Photo Manipulation - Captures from video
Advanced Photo Manipulation - Flash
Advanced Photo Manipulation - photo galleries


Basic Video Manipulation - ripping
Basic Video Manipulation - converting

Advanced Video Manipulation - TIVO and upload to internet
Advanced Video Manipulation - montages

Advanced Audio Manipulation - ripping radio interviews
Advanced Audio Manipulation - recording radio interviews
Advanced Audio Manipulation - ripping audio from video
Advanced Audio Manipulation - manipluatiing audio - cleaning up, cropping, effects etc.

Basic File Handling - zipping/unzipping files
Basic File Handling - uploading to internet
Basic File Handling - downloading from internet


Translation - Portugese
Translation - Indonesian


Transcribe - TV/Video
Transcribe - scans, magazines, newspapers


Research Maintain Kats Kalendar - concerts
Research Maintain Kats Kalendar - tv
Research Maintain Kats Kalendar - magazine
Research Maintain Kats Kalendar - newspaper
Research Maintain Kats Kalendar - auditions


Research Find streaming videos
Research Find photos
Research Find magazine articles
Research Find newspaper articles


Human Resources/Coordinating People


Contacting people online


Website HTML
Website CSS
Website javascript

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09/17/2006 12:54 PM Alert 
Thanks Phee, I just put together some more ideas...

Programing
-- HTML
-- CSS
-- Javascript
-- Building Pages
-- Content Management System
-- Internal Database

Graphics
-- Making Headers
-- Making Buttons
-- Making Templates/Website Comps


video

-- Gathering
-- Ripping
-- Transcribing to text
-- AI Performance Video
-- AI Extra Video
-- TV Show Video
-- Concert Video
-- Video Player

Text
-- Writing
-- Editing
-- Transcribing Video and Audio
-- Publishing

Articles
-- Gathering
-- Categorizing Article Content for Research Database
-- Web Links
-- Magazine Scans
-- Official AI Magazine
-- Hollywood Magazines
-- Newspapers


Photos
-- Gathering Photos
-- Cropping
-- Crediting
-- Resizing
-- Making Photo Galleries
-- American Idol Photos
-- Concert Photos
-- Fan Encounter Photos
-- Red Carpet Photos
-- Behind the Scenes of AI Photos
-- Pre-Idol Photos
-- Post Idol Photos (big sexy, today show, etc)

Audio
-- Collecting Files
-- Converting Files
-- Engineering Files
-- Audio Player
-- Gathering Radio Interviews
-- Transcribing Radio Interviews

Message Boards
IDF
KMF
AI

Capturing Relavent Posts relating to each event (top 7 week, Bulimia, etc) while also looking for media that slips through the crack.

Kat Fan Websites
Looking for media that slips through the cracks.


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09/17/2006 12:58 PM Alert 
okay, so now we have 2 lists! Can someone combine ken's and my list into 1!
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09/17/2006 1:01 PM Alert 
Yeah, I will.

Kat Pack #1422

Kat's Comment to me:

"Lauren,
don't worry about your gift and not getting on time. That is sooo sweet but you didn't have to do that. I really appreciate it. I read your comment and it really touched me. I'm happy you enjoyed your first season of Idol. I mostly thank you for all your support. It means more than anything. I just love that people are enjoying the music. Keep in touch and thanks again. Cute page too!
kat"

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09/17/2006 1:20 PM Alert 
Photos

-- Gathering Photos
-- Cropping
-- Crediting
-- Resizing
-- Making Photo Galleries
-- American Idol Photos
-- Concert Photos
-- Fan Encounter Photos
-- Red Carpet Photos
-- Behind the Scenes of AI Photos
-- Pre-Idol Photos
-- Post Idol Photos (big sexy, today show, etc)
- captures from websites
- blends
- Animated Gifs
- Captures from video
- Flash
- photo galleries


Video

- ripping
- converting
- TIVO and upload to internet
- montages
-- Transcribing to text
-- AI Performance Video
-- AI Extra Video
-- TV Show Video
-- Concert Video
-- Video Player


Audio

- ripping radio interviews
- recording radio interviews
- ripping audio from video
- manipluatiing audio - cleaning up, cropping, effects etc.
-- Collecting Files
-- Converting Files
-- Engineering Files
-- Audio Player
-- Transcribing Radio Interviews

Graphics

-- Making Headers
-- Making Buttons
-- Making Templates/Website Comps

Programing

-- HTML
-- CSS
-- Javascript
-- Building Pages
-- Content Management System
-- Internal Database

Basic File Handling

- zipping/unzipping files
- uploading to internet
- downloading from internet


Translation

- Portugese
- Indonesian


Transcribe

- TV/Video
- scans, magazines, newspapers



Research Find:
- streaming videos
- photos
- magazine articles
- newspaper articles


Human Resources/Coordinating People


Contacting people online

Text

-- Writing
-- Editing
-- Transcribing Video and Audio
-- Publishing

Articles
-- Gathering
-- Categorizing Article Content for Research Database
-- Web Links
-- Magazine Scans
-- Official AI Magazine
-- Hollywood Magazines
-- Newspapers

Message Boards

- IDF
- KMF
- AI

Capturing Relavent Posts relating to each event (top 7 week, Bulimia, etc) while also looking for media that slips through the crack.

Kat Fan Websites
Looking for media that slips through the cracks.


Kat's Calender

- Tv
- Auditions
- Newspapers
- Radio
- Releases

Kat Pack #1422

Kat's Comment to me:

"Lauren,
don't worry about your gift and not getting on time. That is sooo sweet but you didn't have to do that. I really appreciate it. I read your comment and it really touched me. I'm happy you enjoyed your first season of Idol. I mostly thank you for all your support. It means more than anything. I just love that people are enjoying the music. Keep in touch and thanks again. Cute page too!
kat"

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09/17/2006 2:28 PM Alert 
thanks!


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09/17/2006 3:02 PM Alert 
sure no problem!

Kat Pack #1422

Kat's Comment to me:

"Lauren,
don't worry about your gift and not getting on time. That is sooo sweet but you didn't have to do that. I really appreciate it. I read your comment and it really touched me. I'm happy you enjoyed your first season of Idol. I mostly thank you for all your support. It means more than anything. I just love that people are enjoying the music. Keep in touch and thanks again. Cute page too!
kat"

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09/17/2006 3:52 PM Alert 
I could translate things to Spanish!
Katharine has an amazing Fanbase in south america!
i'll be glad to help
just ask!
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09/17/2006 4:22 PM Alert 
Terrific katfan_argentina!!!!!


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09/17/2006 4:30 PM Alert 
So... we already have 4 languages to work with! English, portuguese, indonesian and spanish.

Awesome!!! =D
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09/17/2006 5:26 PM Alert 
As I said before, I have most of her performances on AI here in Divx format... there's also a couple of them in HD, which is even better =) So I'll be glad to contribute with that. And as Paulie said, I'll help with Portuguese translations =) I can download and upload stuff too... I'll think if there's something else I can do!
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09/17/2006 8:18 PM Alert 
I can do anything Photo related. I have a ton of Kat images on my computer already bw the Phee site and the Katsconcerts site. Blends, animated gifs, montages, crop, size, what ever.....just let me know.
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09/18/2006 12:50 AM Alert 
well...i have well over a 1000, probably 2000 or more, pics of kat on my computer...just collected from when idol started...i am great at correspondence--i saw that as a category...um--i can crop, resize, and edit photos...though i am SURE that others are way better at things like that than i am, because i have seen some HD pics and videos online that are great, so there's that.  um...i am willing to do whatever needs to be done as far as anything really!  ha  i love to search for things and FIND THEM...ha and i love to try to keep people up to date on things as well--though i know that many people find things out before i do as far as appearances and so forth, so there are probably better people than me for that as well.  i have every episode of idol recorded from the beginning of season 5 to the end, and then every kat appearance afterwards that was aired, except the early show--didn't catch that one unfortunately.  there are so many categories for this, it's insane, so whatever it takes, count me in!  i think this is a great idea to make sure the most accurate information is out there so people are not led astray when wanting to know something or see something about kat--should be and sounds like fun!    just e-mail me with any questions--i'll get back to you probably right away or at least that same day! 
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09/18/2006 1:48 AM Alert 
Well, I could probably do a little of everything on that list if I had more time (other than media capturing--because I don't have the software). But I'll keep it simple and whittle it down to three basic things I can supply: Writing (I hear a chorus of "D'oh's"! ), graphic art work that involves making headers/banners and photo cropping, and then scanning of things from magazines or other publications. My scanner, though, needs to be upgraded (it's not a digital scanner)--so maybe that should be passed on to someone else who has a better scanner. We obviously want the best possible scans on Katpedia.

I hope you'll get 100 volunteers for this project, because it's the only way something this monumental will get underway. Though I don't think we have that many regulars here on the board. Most of the people who post every day probably only equals about 20 or 30 people. So that means the volunteers who signed up here might end up having more to do than they intended. While I want to volunteer as much as possible--I am pressed for time most days until the late-night hours. Most of my contributions would have to be at off-hours that others will have to help pick up the slack during the times I'm not available at all. Creating things over time that can be used later works the best for me (i.e. making headers/banners, writing things in advance, etc.)

If that sort of creative work from me can apply to this--then it'll make it a lot easier on my end. I guess there's no real deadlines involved in this project, so I hope that scenario I mentioned is workable.

Once we start getting to work on these things and figure out how much time it'll involve, I can probably add on to doing more depending on how easy it is with the other things. But I have a feeling that since we may get less than 100 volunteers--it might involve a lot more work for some people. However, that's fine as long as it doesn't interfere with people's lives. And I think we all have those, right?

Again, this is really an incredible idea, Ken--and I hope it can turn into how a lot of us envision it.
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09/18/2006 2:35 AM Alert 

I already posted on the other one but...

Anything to do with writing I can do, finding pictures, interviews, all that stuff...I can do that.  I can cap pictures from videos although I'm guessing we have other better than me at that.  Basically, I'll be a part of the writing crew.  And yeah, that we'll probably just be going as fast as we can...that's good.  Don't want to deal with deadlines on this.


"I saw Katharine McPhee when there were about 12 contestants left on American Idol. She blew me away. I loved her grace, her style, her poise, her voice and her hair! I wanted her to be the face of Sexy Hair because she represented everything that I had in my head for the brand: youth, beauty, talent, class, a young sophistication, and sexiness." -- Jim Morrison, CEO of Sexy Hair Products.
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09/18/2006 3:53 AM Alert 
a little confused here as always... seems to be a bit chaotic... anways, I can do a lot of the stuff mentioned on the list, except for programming and with some thing I believe others are just better... anyways, everything with uploading, downloading, ripping, pics, vids, writing, organizing... and for the future, if anything pops up in Europe... I'm here LOL  can't think of anything more to say right now but I'm definitely with you on this project
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09/18/2006 6:48 AM Alert 
Posted By Katharine06idol on 09/18/2006 12:50 AM
well...i have well over a 1000, probably 2000 or more, pics of kat on my computer...just collected from when idol started...i am great at correspondence--i saw that as a category...um--i can crop, resize, and edit photos...though i am SURE that others are way better at things like that than i am, because i have seen some HD pics and videos online that are great, so there's that.  um...i am willing to do whatever needs to be done as far as anything really!  ha  i love to search for things and FIND THEM...ha and i love to try to keep people up to date on things as well--though i know that many people find things out before i do as far as appearances and so forth, so there are probably better people than me for that as well.  i have every episode of idol recorded from the beginning of season 5 to the end, and then every kat appearance afterwards that was aired, except the early show--didn't catch that one unfortunately.  there are so many categories for this, it's insane, so whatever it takes, count me in!  i think this is a great idea to make sure the most accurate information is out there so people are not led astray when wanting to know something or see something about kat--should be and sounds like fun!    just e-mail me with any questions--i'll get back to you probably right away or at least that same day! 





Well we are lucky to have you. Just supplying assets is a big deal.


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